{"id":401153,"date":"2026-04-16T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:40:10","slug":"fianna-fail-tds-looking-for-a-leader-to-heave-against-taoiseach-micheal-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401153\/","title":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il TDs looking for a leader to heave against Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">TDs are informally \u2018sounding out\u2019 ministers \u2013 including Dara Calleary, Darragh O&#8217;Brien and Jim O&#8217;Callaghan \u2013 to see if they would back a no-confidence motion\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin's leadership is being questioned. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2471df25-db46-46b5-b277-642e661f2111.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin&#8217;s leadership is being questioned. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Mary Regan, Maeve McTaggart and Cillian Sherlock<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Miche\u00e1l Martin\u2019s leadership of Fianna F\u00e1il is facing renewed threats, with a group of TDs approaching senior ministers to discuss a change at the top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Backbenchers have said it is past time for \u201cwaiting around\u201d for a challenger to make their move, and that they will seek to build support for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TDs are informally \u2018sounding out\u2019 ministers \u2013 including Dara Calleary, Darragh O&#8217;Brien and Jim O&#8217;Callaghan \u2013 to see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16570,25746,895,42,18573,25081,24878,1843,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-401153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-dara-calleary","9":"tag-darragh-obrien","10":"tag-fianna-fail","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-jim-ocallaghan","13":"tag-mary-regan","14":"tag-michael-healy-rae","15":"tag-micheal-martin","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-top-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topnews","20":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}